Who is Patrick & Daniel, and the trick with Blaniks is you get someone else to
work on them, thats why god invented ground enginerring schools.
JR
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Mc Donnell
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] CDMA/Next G
Has anybody else been getting postcards from Patrick & Daniel wandering
around Oz in a Kombi? 50c a time I presume that goes on somebody's bill
somewhere sometime.
Chris McDonnell
----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Newton
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] CDMA/Next G
On 01/12/2007, at 3:35 PM, Terry Neumann wrote:
I guess all CDMA people will have to comply eventually, embrace the new
system which promises all, and hope that Sol and Co have got it right.
No, that's not how it works.
Telstra have had a legally enforceable condition placed on their
carrier license by the ACMA. According to that condition, they're
not allowed to shut down the CDMA network until the NextG network
has equivalent or better coverage.
ACMA has team of auditors roaming the countryside with signal
strength meters doling out infringement notices in places where
CDMA is still better than NextG.
Telstra absolutely hates it, because getting NextG to the same standard
as CDMA will cost billions. ACMA doesn't care, because most people
have forgotten that the Government has already given Telstra several
billion dollars to build NextG, and the strings attached to that money
all those years ago said that the new network had to be better than the
old one. Having received and spent the money, Telstra is now trying to
rewrite the rules.
The aggressive pushes from Telstra trying to get you to switch to NextG
are part of their PR campaign: They want to be able to go to the
Government and say, "Look, you tossers, almost everyone out in the
countryside has already made the switch. Even if you think the new
network is worse than the old one, the market has voted with its feet."
The ACMA is currently having none of that, and the audits continue,
and the Australian community as a whole will benefit if individuals don't
migrate to NextG at this stage.
Upon reflection, nothing has been as good as the original analogue
network for general country coverage.
Telstra was forced to shut that one down as the price to pay for the entry
of telecommunications competition.
Vodafone and Optus were unwilling to enter Australia to compete in a
market where Telstra already had 100% of the customers locked-up.
So they demanded a level playing field, where all of the players would
have 0% of the market locked up, and everyone would need to
compete on their merits.
So AMPS was shut down, and GSM was the new black.
Regional Australia really has been a telecommunications political
football for 20 years, eh?
- mark
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